"If we beat ourselves, then we will win!"

- India Turman

India made this pronouncement at breakfast. She has a little Yogi Berra going on...it makes a spacy kind of sense, I think. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I like it.

Food was our battleground today. Kate is a little pig and happily chews away on whatever you give her (even if it is a non-perishable item) but India has always struggled with eating enough. In addition, she can be fairly headstrong...I know you are all wondering where she gets that...and sometimes she uses food as her power source. She refused to eat lunch or finish her milk today, and the rule is that she does not get an afternoon snack if she doesn't eat. Normally she accepts this gracefully and we all go about our business as usual, but today India became EVIL CHILD FROM HELL when she woke up from nap and remembered that she had sabotaged her own snack. It was an hour of wailing, moaning, pouting, sighing, cajoling, and ultimately....yelling. If she knew how to curse she would have, and I came close myself. During the entire fracas Kate steadily munched on her goldfish, a happy song in her little head, oblivious. What a skill.

Our printer died this weekend, so yesterday when we went to Maryland we bought a new one. It is INCREDIBLE! I need to review the manual, but I'm pretty sure that it vacuums and does our taxes. I don't think I've ever been so excited about a machine, but we are talking going from something that barely printed to something that faxes, scans, copies, prints photos (even from a negative) and does all kinds of other fancy little tricks that I will never master. All you computer geeks who have inspired me of late should be very proud of yourselves; I'm almost becoming a full-fledged technology user (although I still refuse to use my cell phone except for emergencies, dislike most gadgets, won't text message anyone and will never preprogram telephone numbers into ANY device). I'm too tired to play with it tonight, but tomorrow is our 14th wedding anniversary so maybe I will try to scan a wedding photo in tomorrow...'til then, I've got nothing good to share except some stock photos of the dogs.